I use photography to make myself happy. I don't really take pictures because I think they will be interesting to other people, I take them because they interest me. I feel like there is a lot of sadness and negativity in the world, so I use photography to remind me of all the beauty in it. My pictures are usually pretty simple. It's very cliche, but I really think that the simple things in life are the best things in life. I like to explore the simplicity of things people sometimes think are very complex. Breaking these huge things down into smaller ideas is always my goal for my pictures. I feel like it almost gives me a little control over my world, to just focus on one thing.
I don't have a set procedure for my projects, I just see things that interest me and I capture them. The way I answer a prompt is kind of organized chaos, in that I don't plan what I'm going to photograph ahead of time. I pick a place to go to, maybe the forest behind my house or maybe just my bedroom, and I take pictures in any way that I think would be relevant to my objective. Taking one picture gives me a bunch of other ideas and my work builds on itself. When I edit the pictures later on I love to push the contrast and saturation in the pictures because I really love color for most of my projects. I feel like color helps tell the story of the photo.
Most of my work is landscapes and nature. Over the summer I took a roll focusing on sunsets and it's one of my favorite rolls I've ever taken. I get really inspired by nature and the beauty of the colors and reflections in it. I have recently stepped out of my comfort zone and done some work with self portraits. I enjoyed it because it gave me a new perspective on what I can do with photography, but I still prefer to be behind the camera. As I said in the first paragraph, I want to explore the simplicity of things and emphasize the beauty I see in the world. In the past I've only seen this as inanimate objects, but now I am beginning to branch out and understand that people and their stories can be just as interesting and simple as nature.
I don't have a set procedure for my projects, I just see things that interest me and I capture them. The way I answer a prompt is kind of organized chaos, in that I don't plan what I'm going to photograph ahead of time. I pick a place to go to, maybe the forest behind my house or maybe just my bedroom, and I take pictures in any way that I think would be relevant to my objective. Taking one picture gives me a bunch of other ideas and my work builds on itself. When I edit the pictures later on I love to push the contrast and saturation in the pictures because I really love color for most of my projects. I feel like color helps tell the story of the photo.
Most of my work is landscapes and nature. Over the summer I took a roll focusing on sunsets and it's one of my favorite rolls I've ever taken. I get really inspired by nature and the beauty of the colors and reflections in it. I have recently stepped out of my comfort zone and done some work with self portraits. I enjoyed it because it gave me a new perspective on what I can do with photography, but I still prefer to be behind the camera. As I said in the first paragraph, I want to explore the simplicity of things and emphasize the beauty I see in the world. In the past I've only seen this as inanimate objects, but now I am beginning to branch out and understand that people and their stories can be just as interesting and simple as nature.